Environmental history of modern migrations

Author(s)

• Armiero, Marco
• Tucker, Richard P.

Bibliographic Information

Environmental history of modern migrations

edited by Marco Armiero and Richard Tucker

（Routledge environmental humanities）（Earthscan from Routledge）

Routledge, 2018

• : pbk

Note

First published: 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculation or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic planning and military analysis. Environmental History of Modern Migrations offers a worldwide perspective on the history of migrations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and provides an opportunity to reflect on the global ecological transformations and developments which have occurred throughout the last few centuries. With a primary focus on the environment/migration nexus, this book advocates that global environmental changes are not distinct from global social transformations. Instead, it offers a progressive method of combining environmental and social history, which manages to both encompass and transcend current approaches to environmental justice issues. This edited collection will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental history and migration studies, as well as those with an interest in history and sociology.

Table of Contents

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction: migrants in environmental history Marco Armiero and Richard Tucker Part I Changing natures 1 Waves of migration: settlement and creation of the Hawaiian environment Carol MacLennan 2 European immigration and changes in the landscape of southern Brazil Eunice Sueli Nodari and Miguel Mundstock Xavier de Carvalho 3 Migrants and the making of the American landscape Marco Armiero 4 Making the land Russian? Migration, settlement, and environment in the Russian Far East, 1860-1914 Mark Sokolsky 5 Coal lives: body, work and memory among Italian miners in Wallonia, Belgium Daniele Valisena and Marco Armiero Part II Racializing natures 6 Riotous environments: Filipino immigrants in the fields of California Linda L. Ivey 7 Creating the threatening "others": environment, Chinese immigrants and racist discourse in colonial Australia Fei Sheng 8 Nativist politics and environmental privilege: ecological and cultural conflicts concerning Latin American migration to the United States David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park Part III Naturalising causes 9 Environmental degradation as a cause of migration: cautionary tales from Brazil Angus Wright 10 The ecological and social vulnerability of the Three Gorges resettlement area in China, 1992-2012 Ying Xing 11 Archaeologies of the future: tracing the lineage of contemporary discourses on the climate-migration nexus Giovanni Bettini Index

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Details

• NCID: BB28210157
• ISBN:
  • 9780367172626
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 215 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 304.8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Emigration and immigration -- Environmental aspects
  • LCSH : Environmental degradation -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Global environmental change -- Social aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB16536703
  • BB09790446